The boundary between at 20000 is not really any more significant than the bounary
at 3000, or 2000, or 900. We don't need special names for boundaries between
different scripts.

At plane 14, it's only a few characters we regret ;-)

Mark

"John H. Jenkins" wrote:

> At 7:19 AM -0800 7/11/00, Mark Davis wrote:
> >However, there are certain units or thresholds that are useful to distinguish
> >in Unicode. The most important threshold is the one between FFFF and 10000:
> >important for UTF-16 implementations (and to a minor degree, UTF-8
> >implementations). So there are terms for codepoints above and below that. I've
> >heard the following used:
> >
> >BMP characters: those with codepoints < 10000 (borrowing BMP from 10646)
> >aka UCS-2 characters
> >aka non-surrogate characters
> >
> >non-BMP characters: those with codepoints > FFFF
> >aka non-UCS-2 characters
> >aka surrogate characters
> >
>
> At the same time, it would be nice to have a Unicodally correct way
> of referring to planes 1 and 2, since there is an important boundary
> between them.
>
> And of course, the *proper* way to refer to plane 14 is to pretend it
> doesn't exist at all. :-)
>
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> John H. Jenkins
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